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The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

~Jacqueline Woodson

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When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

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I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!

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I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

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I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

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I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

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In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.

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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

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Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

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I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 12th, 1963

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